Talks

Practical adviceBuilding a web performance team, measurement, and how to convince your company to care about performance.

In-depth case studiesTrivago, Wix, JD Williams, Missguided and more.

Redefining Web Performance

Session details coming soon...

About Tim Kadlec

Tim is a performance consultant, trainer and developer focused on building a web everyone can use. He is the author of High Performance Images (O'Reilly, 2016) and Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web (New Riders, 2012), and was a contributing author for Smashing Book #4: New Perspectives on Web Design (Smashing Magazine, 2013), and the Web Performance Daybook Volume 2 (O'Reilly, 2012). He writes about all things web at timkadlec.com. You can find him sharing his thoughts in a briefer format on Twitter at @tkadlec.

Tim Kadlec

Performance Consultant

About Tim Kadlec

Tim is a performance consultant, trainer and developer focused on building a web everyone can use. He is the author of High Performance Images (O'Reilly, 2016) and Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web (New Riders, 2012), and was a contributing author for Smashing Book #4: New Perspectives on Web Design (Smashing Magazine, 2013), and the Web Performance Daybook Volume 2 (O'Reilly, 2012). He writes about all things web at timkadlec.com. You can find him sharing his thoughts in a briefer format on Twitter at @tkadlec.

Hunting the Unicorn

There's a lot of competition to define the next big unicorn performance metric, but does this unicorn actually exist? In the past, we relied on metrics like page load time, start render, and time to first paint to measure user experience, but we now know that these metrics don't tell the full story.

The key to a good user experience is quickly delivering the content your visitors care about the most. This is easy to say, but tricky to do. Every site has unique content and unique user engagement goals, which is why measuring how quickly critical content renders is a hugely challenging task.

Tammy will walk through a brief history of UX and web performance research, highlighting landmark studies that helped connect the dots between performance and user experience. She'll also demystify the current state of performance metrics and help you understand what you need to focus on for your site and your users.

About Tammy Everts

Tammy has spent the past two decades studying how people use the web. Since 2009, she’s focused on the intersection between web performance, user experience, and business metrics. Her book, Time Is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance (O’Reilly, 2016), is a distillation of much of this research.

Tammy is a frequent speaker at events like Velocity, Smashing Conference, Shop.org, and IRCE. She co-chairs O’Reilly Fluent, the conference for anyone involved in building the modern web. She also co-curates WPOstats.com, an ongoing collection of performance case studies.

Tammy Everts

Chief Experience Officer at SpeedCurve

About Tammy Everts

Tammy has spent the past two decades studying how people use the web. Since 2009, she’s focused on the intersection between web performance, user experience, and business metrics. Her book, Time Is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance (O’Reilly, 2016), is a distillation of much of this research.

Tammy is a frequent speaker at events like Velocity, Smashing Conference, Shop.org, and IRCE. She co-chairs O’Reilly Fluent, the conference for anyone involved in building the modern web. She also co-curates WPOstats.com, an ongoing collection of performance case studies.

Any Site can be a Progressive Web App

There's a common misconception that making a Progressive Web App means creating a Single Page App with an app-shell architecture. But the truth is that literally any website can benefit from the performance boost that results from the combination of HTTPS + Service Worker + Web App Manifest.

About Jeremy Keith

Jeremy is the technical lead and co-founder of Clearleft, a splendid design agency in Brighton. He has written some books: DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, HTML5 For Web Designers, and most recently, Resilient Web Design. His website is adactio.com, where he has been writing for over fifteen years.

Jeremy Keith

Technical Lead and Co-founder - Clearleft

About Jeremy Keith

Jeremy is the technical lead and co-founder of Clearleft, a splendid design agency in Brighton. He has written some books: DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, HTML5 For Web Designers, and most recently, Resilient Web Design. His website is adactio.com, where he has been writing for over fifteen years.

It’s My (Third) Party and I'll Cry If I Want To

Like it or not, a huge part of modern web development involves the use of third-party providers: fonts, analytics, ads, tracking, and more all have an impact of performance, and can leave us (or, more worryingly, our visitors) susceptible to performance degradation.

In this talk, we’ll take a look at unruly or uninvited (third-)party guests: how to detect them, how to audit them, and how to manage them. We’ll also look at the different tools available to help us stress-test and quantify the overhead these third parties bring, and what that means for users and businesses alike.

About Harry Roberts

With a client list including Google, the United Nations, and Unilever, Harry is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect who helps organisations and teams across the globe to plan, build, and maintain product-scale UIs.

He writes on the subjects of CSS architecture, performance, and scalability at csswizardry.com; develops and maintains inuitcss; authored CSS Guidelines; and Tweets at @csswizardry.

Harry Roberts

Consultant Front-end Architect - CSS Wizardry Ltd

About Harry Roberts

With a client list including Google, the United Nations, and Unilever, Harry is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect who helps organisations and teams across the globe to plan, build, and maintain product-scale UIs.

He writes on the subjects of CSS architecture, performance, and scalability at csswizardry.com; develops and maintains inuitcss; authored CSS Guidelines; and Tweets at @csswizardry.

A Rube Goldberg Machine and New Web Technology

There are some exciting new developments happening in the web platform right now. New APIs such as CSS Grid, Web Components, Custom CSS Properties and the Web Animation API. Each on their own is a complex
topic worth getting to grips with but what this talk aims to show is how they can be used with each other when used together the result is greater than the sum of its parts. There is only a brief introduction to each topic so some prior knowledge for Web Animations, Custom Properties, CSS Grid and Web Components would help but is not required.

About Ada Rose Cannon

Ada Rose Cannon is really passionate about Virtual Reality and other new Front End Web Technologies. Her favourite computer language is HTML (yes, really).
Ada used to work in R&D on front-end web technology but now she is a Web and VR Advocate for the Samsung Internet Web Browser.

Ada Rose Cannon

Developer Advocate - Samsung Internet

About Ada Rose Cannon

Ada Rose Cannon is really passionate about Virtual Reality and other new Front End Web Technologies. Her favourite computer language is HTML (yes, really).
Ada used to work in R&D on front-end web technology but now she is a Web and VR Advocate for the Samsung Internet Web Browser.

The Shape of the Web

Somewhere on a university campus in the US midwest, a 20 some year old student was earning minimum-wage, writing code in the middle of the night that would forever change the world.
Until 1992, the internet was largely textual, reserved almost exclusively to academia, with the charm of searching for library books via antiquated card catalogs. The sea change was a browser called: Mosaic.
Marc Andreessen, the young minimum-wage earner, co-authored Mosaic and in 1993 it became the 1st consumer-friendly browser, described once as the “gateway to the riches of the internet”. 25 years later, these same internet riches have become richer content, browsing has become as quotidian as a cup of coffee though not without a touch of tumult.
“The Shape Of The Web” is about both accomplishments and challenges that lay in past, present and future of the web, its technologies employed and its employed technologists.

About Henri Helvetica

Henri is a freelance developer who has turned his interests to a passionate mix of site performance engineering and pinches of user experience. When not reading the deluge of daily research docs and case studies, or indiscriminately auditing sites in devtools, Henri can be found contributing back to the community, co-programming meetups including the Toronto Web Performance Group or volunteering his time for lunch and learns at various bootcamps. Otherwise, he’s riding track bikes, tooling with music production software or more recently, focusing on the fastest 5k possible.

Henri Helvetica

Performance blogger

About Henri Helvetica

Henri is a freelance developer who has turned his interests to a passionate mix of site performance engineering and pinches of user experience. When not reading the deluge of daily research docs and case studies, or indiscriminately auditing sites in devtools, Henri can be found contributing back to the community, co-programming meetups including the Toronto Web Performance Group or volunteering his time for lunch and learns at various bootcamps. Otherwise, he’s riding track bikes, tooling with music production software or more recently, focusing on the fastest 5k possible.

There's more to Performance than meets the Eye

What does performant look like when you can't see the screen? The browser does more with the DOM than visually render content. It presents an accessibility tree that's queried using platform accessibility APIs. Different browser processing models mean that Assistive Technologies (AT) are changing the way they obtain accessibility information, but is that having an impact on performance, and what happens when we introduce a JavaScript accessibility API into the equation?

About Léonie Watson

"Léonie began using the internet in 1993, turned it into a career in 1997, and (despite losing her eyesight along the way), she’s been enjoying herself thoroughly ever since.

Léonie is Director of Developer Communications at The Paciello Group (TPG), and a member of the W3C Advisory Board. She is also co-chair of the W3C Web Platform Working Group, where she is responsible for many specifications including IndexedDB, Push API, Pointer Lock API, Gamepad API, ARIA in HTML, and the HTML Accessibility API Mapppings (AAM).

Léonie contributes to projects like the Inclusive Design Principles, and co-organises the Inclusive Design 24 #ID24 conference with friends from TPG. She is a mentor for young people learning programming with Microsoft’s Project Torino, and was technical editor for Laura Kalbag’s book Accessibility For Everyone.

Léonie is often found at conferences, talking about web standards, accessibility mechanics, and pushing the boundaries of inclusive design (with existing technologies like SVG, HTML, ARIA, and JavaScript, as well as new technologies like AI and WebVR). She has also written about these things for Smashing magazine, SitePoint.com, and Net magazine, as well as on her own site: Tink.UK.

In her spare time, Léonie likes reading, cooking, drinking tequila, and dancing (although not necessarily in that order)!"

Léonie Watson

About Léonie Watson

"Léonie began using the internet in 1993, turned it into a career in 1997, and (despite losing her eyesight along the way), she’s been enjoying herself thoroughly ever since.

Léonie is Director of Developer Communications at The Paciello Group (TPG), and a member of the W3C Advisory Board. She is also co-chair of the W3C Web Platform Working Group, where she is responsible for many specifications including IndexedDB, Push API, Pointer Lock API, Gamepad API, ARIA in HTML, and the HTML Accessibility API Mapppings (AAM).

Léonie contributes to projects like the Inclusive Design Principles, and co-organises the Inclusive Design 24 #ID24 conference with friends from TPG. She is a mentor for young people learning programming with Microsoft’s Project Torino, and was technical editor for Laura Kalbag’s book Accessibility For Everyone.

Léonie is often found at conferences, talking about web standards, accessibility mechanics, and pushing the boundaries of inclusive design (with existing technologies like SVG, HTML, ARIA, and JavaScript, as well as new technologies like AI and WebVR). She has also written about these things for Smashing magazine, SitePoint.com, and Net magazine, as well as on her own site: Tink.UK.

In her spare time, Léonie likes reading, cooking, drinking tequila, and dancing (although not necessarily in that order)!"

This is for Everyone

As Timbo said, the web is supposed to be for everyone. So why isn't it, and how can we get the web to more people? Seren Davies and Bruce Lawson, the web's very own Harry and Meghan, will reveal more.

About Seren Davies

Seren is a Software Engineer at Elsevier. In between working and promoting accessibility she can be found doing the occasional bit of nail art.

About Bruce Lawson

Bruce is a web standards consultant for Wix Engineering. He’s been involved in web standards since 2002 (which is why he looks like that). He was an the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force, was a member of the W3C Mobile Best Practices Working Group and co-authored the first full-length book on HTML5.

Seren Davies

Software Engineer - Elsevier

Bruce Lawson

Web standards expert

About Seren Davies

Seren is a Software Engineer at Elsevier. In between working and promoting accessibility she can be found doing the occasional bit of nail art.

About Bruce Lawson

Bruce is a web standards consultant for Wix Engineering. He’s been involved in web standards since 2002 (which is why he looks like that). He was an the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force, was a member of the W3C Mobile Best Practices Working Group and co-authored the first full-length book on HTML5.

Fast Fashion - How Missguided Revolutionised their Approach to Site Performance

Missguided are one of the UK's most innovative and fast-moving fashion retailers but as with many other retailers, web performance hasn't always been our highest priority.

In summer 2017 we started to make performance improvements and as a result, Android revenue increased significantly. Spurred on by this success we created a dedicated performance team and embarked on a journey to dramatically improve performance right across the site. All sites evolve over time and ours was no different, there was legacy code to be unpicked, new techniques to try and stakeholder needs to balance.

In this talk, we'll share some of the approaches we took, the challenges we faced and the lessons we learned. We'll also talk about the performance and revenue gains, and as ultimately getting faster is about making customers happier, their reaction too.

About Mark Leach

Mark is responsible for the Missguided eCommerce strategy and digital experience, and is the product owner for company webstores and apps, executing user testing, optimisation and prioritising enhancements to improve user experience across multiple channels.

About Andy Davies

Andy works with clients to help them understand and improve the performance of their websites.

He regularly speaks about performance and is co-author of 'Using WebPageTest' published and author of 'The Pocket Guide to Web Performance'.

Mark Leach

Head of eCommerce - Missguided

Andy Davies

Associate Director, Web Performance - Eggplant

About Mark Leach

Mark is responsible for the Missguided eCommerce strategy and digital experience, and is the product owner for company webstores and apps, executing user testing, optimisation and prioritising enhancements to improve user experience across multiple channels.

About Andy Davies

Andy works with clients to help them understand and improve the performance of their websites.

He regularly speaks about performance and is co-author of 'Using WebPageTest' published and author of 'The Pocket Guide to Web Performance'.

Where are the Women?

Inside and out of the technology sector, more people are talking about diversity than ever before. That means it matters to us as a society. That’s good, because I care deeply about diversity, and I need you and all of us to care.

About Dora Militaru

Dora is a developer at the Financial Times, where she works on FT.com. She lives in London with her partner and two cats, where she hosts an occasional brunch club.

Dora Militaru

Tech Lead at the Financial Times

About Dora Militaru

Dora is a developer at the Financial Times, where she works on FT.com. She lives in London with her partner and two cats, where she hosts an occasional brunch club.

Improving Load Time for 100 Million Websites - Wix Case-Study

Wix is the leading DIY platform for building an online presence, hosting over 100 million websites. Providing high-performance service is of topmost importance to us, and is one of our main goals for the entire company. In this case-study I will review how we implemented a process of continuous performance improvement, the methodologies and technologies we used, the results we were able to achieve, and our plans for the future.

About Dan Shappir

Dan Shappir is Performance Tech Lead at Wix, focusing on making 110 million sites hosted on the Wix platform load and execute faster. Dan has over twenty years of software development experience, having worked on systems ranging from missile trajectory simulations to networked multi-user games to designing and building Web apps, since even before AJAX. Dan holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and has spoken at various technical conferences.

Dan Shappir

Performance Tech Lead - Wix

About Dan Shappir

Dan Shappir is Performance Tech Lead at Wix, focusing on making 110 million sites hosted on the Wix platform load and execute faster. Dan has over twenty years of software development experience, having worked on systems ranging from missile trajectory simulations to networked multi-user games to designing and building Web apps, since even before AJAX. Dan holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and has spoken at various technical conferences.

How To Manage Performance Like a Product

It’s pretty widely accepted that performance impacts business success. So where do you start and how do you make sure you’re successful? It’s not just about making the slowest pages faster or having the fastest root cause analysis in a fire drill. We need to start to manage performance like a product and use data to gain clear prioritization of efforts and improve performance where it matters most.

There will always be emergencies, but we can use product management strategies and data to help us work smarter; allowing us to identify and focus on the most impactful places to optimize. Maximize efforts and impact by making sure you and your team are focused on what matters most to your company, customers and bottom line. We’ll step through some of the keys of product management and how to apply them to performance and optimization projects.

About Lauren Younger

Lauren has been interested in computers and software ever since her first TI-99 when she was four years old. Her career started as a Software Design Engineer in Test, until she realized that the best way to prevent bugs was to not design them in – and thus made the leap to product management. Today, Lauren is responsible for mPulse which brings together her love of testing and analytics, as well as her keen interest in everything that makes the internet run fast.

Lauren Younger

Sr. Product Manager, Web Experience - Akamai

About Lauren Younger

Lauren has been interested in computers and software ever since her first TI-99 when she was four years old. Her career started as a Software Design Engineer in Test, until she realized that the best way to prevent bugs was to not design them in – and thus made the leap to product management. Today, Lauren is responsible for mPulse which brings together her love of testing and analytics, as well as her keen interest in everything that makes the internet run fast.

Speeding up Without Slowing down

At FT we built one of the world's fastest media websites, and release to production dozens of times a day. But the architectural and organisational decisions aimed at allowing us to deliver reliable features quickly and consistently don't always fit neatly with the desire to optimise performance.

In this warts-and-all talk, you'll learn

- how we build FT.com

- how a highly componentised, microservices stack with a rapid release cycle can sometimes get in the way of performance

- some ideas for working around these obstacles

- that web performance is hard, and no-one's perfect

About Rhys Evans

Rhys Evans is a senior developer on ft.com, one of the world's fastest media sites. After almost a decade as a front-end developer, he's gradually turned to the dark side, spending most of his time building, optimising and - if he's lucky - switching off bits of the nodejs stack. He has built 4 bikes, one of which hasn't broken yet, and spends some of his spare time optimising performance on http://www.refugeesupport.eu/

Rhys Evans

Senior Engineer - Financial Times

About Rhys Evans

Rhys Evans is a senior developer on ft.com, one of the world's fastest media sites. After almost a decade as a front-end developer, he's gradually turned to the dark side, spending most of his time building, optimising and - if he's lucky - switching off bits of the nodejs stack. He has built 4 bikes, one of which hasn't broken yet, and spends some of his spare time optimising performance on http://www.refugeesupport.eu/

Let's Build a Progressive Web App

Let's break down what makes up a PWA (progressive web app). Then build one ourselves; looking at what tools we can use to help save time making them and what performance benefits they can bring us.

About uve

uve is a hacker. They love combining all types of technologies together and encouraging inclusivity in the tech community. Their favourite colour is #b19cd9 and will put the ✨ emoji everywhere unless stopped.

uve

Developer Relations and Community Consultant

About uve

uve is a hacker. They love combining all types of technologies together and encouraging inclusivity in the tech community. Their favourite colour is #b19cd9 and will put the ✨ emoji everywhere unless stopped.

Starting a Dedicated Web Performance Team: the First Ten Months

In July 2017, Pinterest formed its first-ever dedicated web performance team. In this talk I will discuss how the performance team got off the ground, set goals, built tools, and made performance a priority at Pinterest.

Topics will include building a regression testing and investigation framework, finding the biggest optimization wins in our codebase, making customized metrics decisions by relating performance to engagement, and understanding what performance tooling developers need.

About Sarah Dapul-Weberman

Sarah is a Software Engineer on the web performance team at Pinterest. She focuses specifically on server-side web technologies. She is passionate about attempting to automate away more and more parts of her job.

Sarah Dapul-Weberman

Software Engineer - Pinterest

About Sarah Dapul-Weberman

Sarah is a Software Engineer on the web performance team at Pinterest. She focuses specifically on server-side web technologies. She is passionate about attempting to automate away more and more parts of her job.

Chrome User Experience Report

How do 3G and 4G connection speeds differ across countries? What is the effect of 301 redirect on user experience, and thus on conversion rate? These are some of the questions connecting web performance to UX and business metrics that we will be looking at in this talk.

HTTP archive, although very useful, consists of data points that constitute what is known as synthetic measurement, since these numbers are obtained from pages loaded from a browser in a datacenter and not from actual users. That changes with the Chrome User Experience Report that Google launched last October. This Real User Monitoring (RUM) data for Google Chrome users include key user experience metrics for 10,000 websites from real users.

We will analyse this data to answer these questions, our experience in digging through this dataset and potential pitfalls to avoid when analysing it.

About Inian Parameshwaran

Inian is the founder of a web performance company, Dexecure. His day job involves constantly looking for innovative ways to speed up websites. He loves JavaScript, chocolates and anything related to web performance and security. He is a strong believer in the importance of having an open, decentralised and uncensored web ecosystem.

Inian Parameshwaran

Founder - Dexecure

About Inian Parameshwaran

Inian is the founder of a web performance company, Dexecure. His day job involves constantly looking for innovative ways to speed up websites. He loves JavaScript, chocolates and anything related to web performance and security. He is a strong believer in the importance of having an open, decentralised and uncensored web ecosystem.

Web Performance @ NBrown: It's a Business Affair

Web Performance has always been a term used in business that has many meanings. After finally being able to show a direct correlation between webpage load time and impact on e-commerce conversion Nbrown has brought web performance to the centre of the N brown road map. This talk will take you through our journey from an IT metric to a company-wide focus.

About Nick Webb

Nick is a senior technical specialist at N Brown. Being at the forefront of e-commerce for the last 16 years Nick has seen how websites are run at Enterprise level from a business and an IT view. Nick is the IT lead in the Web performance working group at N Brown.

About Laura Sheridan

Laura started her career as an analyst working in a variety of industries across B2B, B2C, private and public sector roles and went on to work as a digital analytics manager in Business Link Northwest and Bupa. Whilst in these roles she developed a passion and knowledge of the technical side of analytics including tagging and development.

Laura joined Nbrown 4 years ago in a newly created role to straddle IT and Marketing, with a view of governing all web data, managing all analytics tools and driving all data-focused project management. Her main focus in the past 18 months has been delivering web performance to the business, getting SMT buy-in and leading a cross-functional working group with marketing, IT and design to get web performance on the roadmap.

Nick Webb

Senior Technical Specialist- Nbrown Group

Laura Sheridan

- Nbrown

About Nick Webb

Nick is a senior technical specialist at N Brown. Being at the forefront of e-commerce for the last 16 years Nick has seen how websites are run at Enterprise level from a business and an IT view. Nick is the IT lead in the Web performance working group at N Brown.

About Laura Sheridan

Laura started her career as an analyst working in a variety of industries across B2B, B2C, private and public sector roles and went on to work as a digital analytics manager in Business Link Northwest and Bupa. Whilst in these roles she developed a passion and knowledge of the technical side of analytics including tagging and development.

Laura joined Nbrown 4 years ago in a newly created role to straddle IT and Marketing, with a view of governing all web data, managing all analytics tools and driving all data-focused project management. Her main focus in the past 18 months has been delivering web performance to the business, getting SMT buy-in and leading a cross-functional working group with marketing, IT and design to get web performance on the roadmap.

25% Faster Hotel Search. Web Performance? - Trivago.

Every day the trivago hotel search website enables millions of users to find their ideal hotel in over 190 countries. With over 50 active locales and annual traffic growth of over 40%, maintaining optimal web performance is key to trivago's success as a business.

In emerging markets, maintaining optimal web performance can become a challenge: varying network conditions and different device topology cause issues. Thanks to trivago's rigorous testing culture, we identified these issues in one of our key emerging markets. We ran comparative tests to improve performance, tied the resulting data to trivago's business metrics and correlated it to conversions, more page interactions and a significant increase in new users.

In this talk, you'll learn how trivago measures performance, how we run complex multivariate tests to calculate the business value of engineering and how we optimised performance for one of our key emerging markets.

About Tobias Baldauf

Frontend Resilience

In a world of unreliable networks and vastly differing device capabilities how can we ensure that we always deliver a fully functional user experience? Let’s go beyond the theory and look at some practical techniques used at BuzzFeed to create resilient front-end systems.

About Ian Feather

Ian leads the front end infrastructure team at BuzzFeed working on performance, testing, automation and resilience. He is particularly fond of working on problems relating to scale: both of sites and of teams.

His background is in Front End Web Development and it’s only in recent years that he has stepped away from feature development to focus on Front End Infrastructure. He is a big fan of continuous delivery and creating a safe environment to push code quickly and easily. Prior to BuzzFeed he worked for Schibsted Media, Lonely Planet and Burberry.

Ian Feather

Principal Software Engineer - Buzzfeed

About Ian Feather

Ian leads the front end infrastructure team at BuzzFeed working on performance, testing, automation and resilience. He is particularly fond of working on problems relating to scale: both of sites and of teams.

His background is in Front End Web Development and it’s only in recent years that he has stepped away from feature development to focus on Front End Infrastructure. He is a big fan of continuous delivery and creating a safe environment to push code quickly and easily. Prior to BuzzFeed he worked for Schibsted Media, Lonely Planet and Burberry.

Debugger; for Developers

What’s common for Meryl Streep, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein? All of them suffered from different problems in their professional lives despite their success. This talk *is not about development*. Instead of code, this inspirational and motivational talk will set debugger on ourselves as humans to analyse the bugs most of us face in our day-to-day jobs as developers. Among others, we will be talking about:

Perfectionism

Imposter syndrome

Overwork

But these are not limited to developers and are applicable to a much wider audience. It will be about psychology, neuroscience, work-life balance, work quality and… us.

About Denys Mishunov

Denys is a front-end developer & public speaker living and working in Norway. Denys is a 2-in-1 art school graduate and engineer, he is passionate about psychology, physics, history, drawing. In his day-to-day job, he enjoys getting to the heart of the matter of things and processes. Originally on “CSS side”, for the last few years Denys has been building javascript applications, still breaking CSS, abusing HTML and working with performance optimisations of pretty much all aspects of the front-end toolset.

Denys Mishunov

Front-end developer

About Denys Mishunov

Denys is a front-end developer & public speaker living and working in Norway. Denys is a 2-in-1 art school graduate and engineer, he is passionate about psychology, physics, history, drawing. In his day-to-day job, he enjoys getting to the heart of the matter of things and processes. Originally on “CSS side”, for the last few years Denys has been building javascript applications, still breaking CSS, abusing HTML and working with performance optimisations of pretty much all aspects of the front-end toolset.

QUIC: in Theory and Practice

This talk will discuss the new QUIC protocol and why it is needed/important for web performance in particular. I will start by discussing the shortcomings of the current HTTP/2 setup and how QUIC aims to help solve them. I will discuss the bolder aspects of the new standard and the open challenges.

The second part will detail our own experience in developing a QUIC implementation and from looking at other open source implementations. This will also incorporate some findings from related state of the art academic research on QUIC. We end by contemplating how quickly the new standard will evolve and what developers can do in preparation, especially if they have not yet transferred to HTTP/2 yet.

About Robin Marx

Robin Marx is a Web Performance researcher at Hasselt University, Belgium. He is currently looking into HTTP/2 and QUIC and how to automate performance best practices. In a previous life, he was a multiplayer game programmer and co-founder of LuGus Studios. In the weekends, Robin hits other people with longswords.

Robin Marx

Web Performance Researcher - UHasselt - EDM

About Robin Marx

Robin Marx is a Web Performance researcher at Hasselt University, Belgium. He is currently looking into HTTP/2 and QUIC and how to automate performance best practices. In a previous life, he was a multiplayer game programmer and co-founder of LuGus Studios. In the weekends, Robin hits other people with longswords.

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